The Pirate Bay has made a resilient comeback this week, and the site is even sporting new Republican sponsors. The BitTorrent download site has sported a skyscraper anti-Obama advertisement, reported by Torrent Freak only hours after the first 2012 presidential debate.

“After four years of the same speeches…” the attack ad begins, displaying a black and white picture of President Barack Obama from 2008 and a color picture of him from 2012. “…Are you better off?” the ad Torrent Freak says was created by the conservative-leaning online organization American Future Fund (AFF) asks.

The AFF website claims that the organization attempts to bring Americans opinions from a conservative and free market perspective. The site alleges that those viewpoints will be “under direct attack” in the United States, and that a conservative voice is necessary.

Traditional political advertisements have been on the radio, TV and other popular mediums, but in recent years the internet has become a useful tool for politics. President Obama’s first campaign in 2008 brought the idea of YouTube addresses and a Twitter presence into the fray, and the president more recently took part in an AMA on Reddit.

“We changed the world in 2012 when we fought off internet censorship. Now, we can defend the internet and change democracy forever,” writes InternetVotes.Org, a website encouraging internet users to take part in politics. “Help us get more internet users to vote than ever before,” the site suggests with links to both register, and share the page with friends via Facebook.

Now the AFF has taken made a strange move in posting their advertisements, which supposedly support the free market, on a website that has been at the center of controversy for being on the of the most popular sources for pirating copyrighted materials online. Earlier this week the Pirate Bay was shut down as a result of a police raid of the PRQ servers which the website was hosted on.

The attack ad from AFF is geo-targeted to users in the United States. It accompanies advertisements that features scantily clad women with taglines like “Meet a real Russian Woman” and Like Asian Women?”

Organizations offering funding to AFF make advertising on a BitTorrent download site even odder. Open Secrets reports that in December of last year AFF received $11.6 million from Center to Protect Patients' Rights (CPPR), and last November the group was given $2.4 million from the American Justice Partnership.

Torrent Freak notes that despite the contradictory nature of advertising on Pirate Bay, AFF will reach millions of potential voters with these ads. The BitTorrent news site does note that last week the Canadian government distanced themselves from an ad campaign that was accidently published on the Pirate Bay.

The New York Times reported in 2010 that AFF influenced 76 percent of their House and Senate races. The organization was listed by the Times’ as getting the “most bang for their bucks.”

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